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Description

While people do qualitative reasoning, there is ample
evidence that they do not always do it well. Two current
crises, human-induced climate change and the financial
meltdown, can be traced in part to faulty mental models.
The QR community has formalisms that can potentially help
with public education about such problems, but so far we
have not been very successful in doing so. We claim that
part of the reason is that current QR accounts do not
adequately incorporate experiential knowledge. We argue
that it is important to find better ways to improve public
qualitative reasoning abilities, in part by helping people
enlist their experience-based models via analogy.